Gunshots & Tweets: Mark Bittman's L.A. Moment

Want a thumbnail sketch of life in Los Angeles? Read the following Twitter exchange between Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and prolific cookbook author, and Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and, well, you know who she is. Seems that when Bittman was in town last week to give a talk at the Skirball, he had what can only be called a quintessential L.A. moment. We missed it at the time, sadly, but thought we'd preserve the moment in print. Well, sort of print.